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Geoff Keighley knows how to close a show. Summer Game Fest 2026 ran for roughly two hours on June 5 at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles, and while the first two-thirds delivered a steady stream of announcements, the final minutes belonged to Square Enix. Final Fantasy VII Revelation, the third...

Valve published the May 2026 Steam Hardware Survey a few days late after brief server issues, but the data was worth waiting for. AMD has reached 44.97% CPU share on Windows gaming PCs, its highest figure yet on the platform. Intel sits at 55.02%, down 0.79 points from April. AMD has been...

Computex 2026 delivered a pile of hardware launches and announcements this week, but we still managed to find a few reviews that were likely queued up before all the tech sites packed up for the annual pilgrimage to Taipei. The AMD Radeon RX 9070 GRE embargo lifted June 2, flooding the zone with...

Season 4 is live for Call of Duty, and as with every major season launch, Activision has published a full patch notes breakdown covering weapon balance, anti-cheat, and the structural changes rolling out with the new content. For PC players, the anti-cheat updates are the part worth reading...

Corsair tends to show up at Computex with a loaded hand, and this year is no exception. At the company’s Computex 2026 booth, the most talked-about piece is something nostalgic: the WARTHOG mid-tower case, a clear spiritual successor to the Corsair Vengeance C70 that a certain generation of...

Intel has been teasing its handheld gaming ambitions since CES in January, name-dropping partners and promising it would take AMD’s dominant Ryzen Z2 Extreme seriously. At Computex 2026, the company stopped teasing and started shipping: the Intel Arc G3 and Arc G3 Extreme are now official...

The Radeon RX 9070 GRE launched recently, and AMD shipped a matching driver to go with it. Adrenalin Edition 26.6.1 is out now, and while official RX 9070 GRE support is the headline addition, the bug fix list is where most existing RDNA 4 owners will want to pay attention. The driver adds...

The new God of War game is real, it looks impressive, and if you only game on PC, you will probably be waiting a long time, or indefinitely. Sony Santa Monica revealed God of War Laufey at PlayStation’s State of Play last night, showcasing 20 minutes of gameplay and confirming that Kratos is...

Computex 2026 is in full swing in Taipei this week, and MSI showed up with something to prove for its 40th anniversary. The company’s booth at Nangang Exhibition Center covers everything from a record-breaking AM5 flagship motherboard to a 31.5-inch QD-OLED panel that switches between 4K/360Hz...

Remedy finally pulled the curtain back on Control Resonant at Sony’s State of Play, and the headline that matters most to PC players may not be the release date but the price. Control Resonant launches September 24, 2026, and the standard edition will cost $59.99, which is $10 cheaper than the...

Power supplies don’t usually steal the show at Computex, but Seasonic is making a credible case for the spotlight this year. The company arrived with one of its most expansive product showcases in recent memory, covering everything from a jaw-dropping 5200W server unit to a full consumer lineup...

Twenty years in, ROG is still finding ways to make a motherboard with nine M.2 slots and an 800-watt graphics card feel like reasonable consumer products. ASUS dropped a significant haul of hardware at Computex 2026 under the “Edition 20” anniversary banner, and while a fair amount of it is...

Forty years in, GIGABYTE is not exactly slowing down. The company used Computex 2026 to unload one of its largest single-show product dumps in recent memory, spanning graphics cards, flagship motherboards, a local AI computing platform, a pair of new monitor lines, and a full peripheral refresh...

Six years into maintenance mode and eleven years removed from its last expansion, StarCraft 2 just received a PTR patch that has the community openly questioning whether they are playing the same game. Blizzard dropped the 5.0.16 PTR notes on May 29, and the changes are, by any reasonable...

Something is coming from ArenaNet on June 5, and the studio is making absolutely no effort to calm the speculation down. Monday, the official Guild Wars social media accounts posted a short video alongside the message: “The wind stirs. The world shifts. Stand ready.” The clip features lightly...

Phanteks came to Computex 2026 with a full hand. Across four separate press releases, the company dropped new case architectures, budget gaming chassis, premium fan solutions, an LCD-equipped AIO, a GaN PSU, and a pair of workstation towers. EX-Series: A Different Take on Airflow The headline...

Getting 256 GB of DDR5 into a desktop has historically involved a four-slot compromise: fill every DIMM slot, watch your frequencies crater, and cross your fingers on platform stability. Origin Code, the memory brand from storage veteran Biwin, is making its case at Computex 2026 that the...

Thermal paste has been a consumable since PC builders first started slathering it on heatspreaders in the 90s, but a company called Carbice wants to change that. Today, the Atlanta-based thermal interface material developer announced two retail partnerships that put its carbon nanotube pads...

Bond is back, and so is the weekly hardware avalanche. IO Interactive’s 007 First Light launched Tuesday and immediately spawned a wave of GPU and handheld benchmark coverage, giving us a fresh look at how the current card stack handles one of 2026’s most anticipated releases. GPU AIB review...

Intel dropped a fresh beta driver for its Arc GPU lineup, and it’s a useful one for anyone planning to run 007 First Light on Arc hardware. Version 32.0.101.8824 adds Game On Driver support for the game across Arc B-series discrete GPUs, A-series discrete GPUs, and the integrated Arc graphics...